Dina and Dan Lose a Baby

There is a bedroom preserved in time in a museum of the little girl, her things are all arranged, everything that was donated from her parents, the little girl's room is set up as if in a time capsule, this is what her room would look like had she lived, she was a messy little girl.

There is a river down the hill where a body was a found, a body is found every summer washed up from the ocean. Once in the news a pregnant lady was found, her baby still intact inside of her but her head and arms and legs where eaten by sharks. All that washed up was the torso and the baby and the bulging breasts still kept inside a maternity tank top.

There is a river down the hill from the museum where you can look out of the replica of the little girl's bedroom and see the river where the bodies are found in July, always July. The river is a mausoleum, a final resting place, the river is a mausoleum, if only for a little while.

There is a bedroom preserved in time in a museum of the little girl, her things are all arranged, everything that was donated from her parents was not actually hers. They had gone to a thrift store and bought things to bring. They could not bare to give anything of hers away, and besides, they did not want anyone to know that she was a tomboy. She did not have any frilly, girly things in her bedroom and now that she had washed up on the shore, they were embarrassed. Before she had disappeared, they were not embarrassed, but now they are, they should have bought her more pink and more dolls. Maybe then she would not have left her home before school that day. Maybe she would have locked the doors and called her parents. When the museum asked for some of her things to help educate others, they could not give away her basketballs or her playing cards. They gave dolls she never owned.

There is a river down the hill where bodies are found in the middle of the summer, you can look out of the window of the replica of the little girl's bedroom and see where she washed up on shore, her arms and legs and head still intact, her torso fine but bloated with heat and salt water.